Simon, there does not seem to be a Photoshop method which is not a hack. Metadata is considered very important by Adobe and other players in the game and will be even more critical in the future for end users and software developers.
http://www.pixelgenius.com/primer/metadata_primer.htm http://www.pixelgenius.com/metareader.html http://www.fnordware.com/xmeta/ http://www.sells.com/knowledge/default.lasso?pagelayout=dam_inmyview http://www.steves-digicams.com/digsoftware_albums.html http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/thomas/exif.html At the same time, I think it is important that users get to decide on the fate of non pixel data in their raster files. Adobe see things a bit differently, so users need to lobby Adobe on how, what, why - metadata is handled. Another hack solution, is to use run a batch action using save for web to write out lossless PNG files, then another batch to convert the PNG into whatever final format is really needed, like TIFF etc. This can be of help with larger amounts of regular bit depth images, where a new file command and a copy/drag does not help with file names. This generally works well for removing most non imge pixel data from a file, as S4W in Photoshop 7 and the optimize feature of ImgeReady 7 seem to be for making smaller files and often strip more non image data than the regular save/save as commands do. It would seem to be a golden opportunity for a small developer to write a classic Mac OS, OS X, Windows application (Java based perhaps?) so that users can drag n drop multiple files onto an alias/shortcut of the application and then have non image data stripped (one would ideally choose which non image data is removed). Hope this helps, Stephen Marsh. >> Thanks Geoff, I was aware of this solution but it is a little clumsy, surely there must be something better? Thanks again, Simon on 1/8/03 5:23 pm, Geoff Dann wrote: > Simon Leibowitz1/8/03 12:47 > >> How do I remove all Exif data from a file ? >> >> Mac OSX. > > Create new blank file same dims/res as orig then copy>paste/drag old image > into new file. Exif data gets left behind. > Geoff << =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
